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Philippines
Death toll in Filipino flash floods rises to 436
Many people were killed as they slept in their beds and tropical storm tore through two cities.
THE RED CROSS has said that the mounting death toll from flash floods that ravaged the southern Philippines has reached 436. Most of those casualties are in two coastal cities.
Philippine Red Cross Secretary General Gwen Pang told The Associated Press that the latest toll today is based on a body count in funeral parlours.
She said that 215 died in Cagayan de Oro and 144 in nearby Iligan cities, and the rest in several other southern and central provinces.
Most of the dead were asleep last night when raging floodwaters triggered by a tropical storm tore through their homes from swollen rivers and cascaded from mountain slopes following 12 hours of pounding rain in the southern Mindanao region.
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